VISION FOR THE LOST

VISION FOR THE LOST

1. God’s heart beats for the lost so much, that He sent His only Son as a missionary to seek and save the lost. To fulfill that vision He trained his twelve disciples as diligent seekers and savers of the lost who went and equipped many more to do the same. (Luke 19:10; Matt. 18:11)

2. “The well do not need a physician, but the sick. I have not come to call righteous but the lost to repentance.” Yeshua is now continuously interceding for them. (Luke 5:31,32; Matt. 9:12,13; Mark 2:17; Heb. 7:25)

3.  Yeshua’s parables are primarily about the “lost and found”

a. The woman who lost the coin and diligently searched for it until she found it. (Luke 15:8-10)

b. A shepherd who left behind 99 sheep while he went into the night to find the one lost sheep.(Luke 15:4)

c. A father patiently waited for his lost son until he was restored. (Luke 15:11-32)

4. While God does not want anyone  to perish, 300,000 souls die every day, most of them into Christless eternity. There is nothing that God loves more than a lost soul being found and saved. As soon as the lost are found and restored, there is great rejoicing in heaven, “There will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous (making a joyful noise on Sunday.)” (2 Peter 3:9; Luke 15:3-7; Matt. 18:12-14)

5. Yeshua came preaching the Kingdom. His first words to the lost were, “Repent for the kingdom of God is near” and those who sat in darkness and in the shadow of death saw a great light. (Matt. 4:16-17)

6. Yeshua’s last words before he departed for his heavenly abode; “Go into all the world and preach the gospel of the kingdom... baptize those who repent...make disciples...equip and send them to the ends of the earth” (Mark. 16:15,16; Matt. 28:18-20; Luke 24:47; Acts 1:8)

7. Yeshua is not satisfied with the sheep in the fold, “Other (lost) sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice, so there shall be one flock and one shepherd.” (John 10:16)

8. To spark a Disciple Making Movement (DMM), you need to discover Yeshua’s vision and passion for the lost. The ingredients are 1. A heart for the lost; 2. Shift from knowledge based to supernatural and 3. Shift from chaplains and chapels to hospitality in homes. Myriads in Jerusalem, in the first ever DMM, were counseled, convicted and converted on the dining tables. (Acts 2:46,47; 21:20)

9. The secret of spiking a ‘discipleship chain’ across the city is to ensure that as soon as a lost person is found, he must be encouraged to immediately start seeking and saving the lost, just as Yeshua did with the Samaritan woman, the Gadarene man, the leper, the blind and many others.

10. Your greatness is not in just seeking and saving the lost but in swiftly making them seekers and savers of the lost.

11. The salvation of one soul is the “greatest miracle.” All Heaven rejoices when one soul enters His Kingdom. The Good Shepherd personally goes out to find one lost soul. We are commanded and commissioned to win souls daily.

12. How many souls will be saved or lost through your personal and corporate ministry today?